TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1 Omit (4) 3 Portend (8) 8 Require (4) 9 Security (8) 11 Furniture craftsman (7-5) 13 Hold (6) 14 Composition (6) 17 However (12) 20 Judicial (8) 21 Lengthy (4) 22 Wandering (8) 23 Elizabeth, in short (4)

DOWN

1 Hand care (8) 2 Sweet powder (7) 4 Warm (6) 5 Additional insurance (5,5) 6 Topic (5) 7 Bird home (4) 10 Evasively (10) 12 Corridors (8) 15 Flower (7) 16 Tension (6) 18 Glowing coal (5) 19 Girl (4)

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1 Spinster off target (4) 3 Use menaces afterwards about odd rate (8) 8 A requirement of fine editions (4) 9 Speed for the fortress? (8) 11 Craftsman becomes premier? (7-5) 13 Keep thanks in check (6) 14 Boy working on a musical composition (6) 17 Yet the smaller one isn’t ever chosen (12) 20 Bar trial of umpire (8) 21 Yearn for a fair bit of time (4) 22 Sting ray not on the straight and narrow (8) 23 Elizabeth makes sailor leave head of convent (4)

DOWN

1 Handy treatment? (8) 2 She mixes Bert a cooling drink (7) 4 Cordial, and possibly earthy (6) 5 Additional protection in the fields? (5,5) 6 Subject of article on No.1 (5) 7 Comfy home on one street (4) 10 At home quickly - by a diversion (10) 12 Spend a very long time in corridors (8) 15 Strange name given to a single flower (7) 16 Over-exertion to produce a tune? (6) 18 Live coal at the end of the last month (5) 19 Girl causes many to leave student group (4)